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Oregon-Based Psilocybin Experiences Company Odyssey Acquires Atman Retreat to Fortify its Standards of Care & Operations

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Thursday, March 21, 2024
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PORTLAND, Ore., March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Odyssey, which became the first center to host a legal psilocybin retreat on U.S. soil in Fall 2023, is today announcing its acquisition of company Atman Retreat, which has offered psilocybin retreats since 2019. Atman founder, Aaron Nesmith-Beck will join the Odyssey team as interim COO, bringing years of expertise and a strong existing customer-base to Odyssey's mission in Oregon.

Key Points: 
  • PORTLAND, Ore., March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Odyssey, which became the first center to host a legal psilocybin retreat on U.S. soil in Fall 2023, is today announcing its acquisition of company Atman Retreat, which has offered psilocybin retreats since 2019.
  • Atman founder, Aaron Nesmith-Beck will join the Odyssey team as interim COO, bringing years of expertise and a strong existing customer-base to Odyssey's mission in Oregon.
  • Founded by a Stanford-trained aerospace engineer and advised by Harvard and Stanford-trained psychiatrists, Odyssey provides group psilocybin experiences (4-day retreats) at a variety of licensed service centers in Oregon.
  • One of the first legal psilocybin retreats, Atman hosted hundreds of participants from 2019-2023 in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

CZI Launches AI Advisory Group and Residency Program to Accelerate Development of Virtual Cell Models

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Thursday, March 21, 2024
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced several key appointments and a new AI residency program to advance the organization's AI strategy for science, which is focused on building predictive models of healthy and diseased cells. Several AI experts from academia and industry have joined a newly established AI Advisory Group, which will provide guidance to leaders at CZI and across the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network as these organizations work to enable AI at scale for nonprofit life science research. In addition, CZI is launching an AI residency program to develop foundational AI/ML models and tools that will enable new scientific breakthroughs. Theofanis Karaletsos, a technology leader in AI/ML research and science, has also been hired as CZI's Head of Artificial Intelligence for Science.

Key Points: 
  • In addition, CZI is launching an AI residency program to develop foundational AI/ML models and tools that will enable new scientific breakthroughs.
  • These advisors have deep expertise in leveraging AI/ML models and methods to advance scientific research:
    Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.
  • Karaletsos will lead CZI's AI strategy for science, including the organization's vision to develop virtual cell models, utilizing one of the largest high-performance AI computing system s for nonprofit life science research.
  • He will collaborate with scientific leaders at CZI including Emma Lundberg, a member of CZI's AI Advisory Group and an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University, to launch an in-house AI Residency Program.

Fluent Biosciences announces early access availability of transformative direct-guide capture for single cell analysis for complex CRISPR screening in Particle-templated Instant Partitions (PIPseq-CRISPR)

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Thursday, March 21, 2024
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WATERTOWN, Mass., March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fluent BioSciences, a life sciences company focused on making single-cell analysis simple and accessible to every researcher, announces early access availability of new kits and reagents for direct CRISPR guide capture in particle templated instant partitions (PIPseq-CRISPR).

Key Points: 
  • WATERTOWN, Mass., March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fluent BioSciences, a life sciences company focused on making single-cell analysis simple and accessible to every researcher, announces early access availability of new kits and reagents for direct CRISPR guide capture in particle templated instant partitions (PIPseq-CRISPR).
  • The PIPseq platform provides an instrument and microfluidics-free approach for single cell analysis, eliminating barriers to accessibility and program costs that limit routine application of high-throughout single cell analysis.
  • These early access kits allow for universal capture of CRISPR guide-RNA in addition to 3' mRNA capture from single-cell suspensions, enabling complex perturbation screening at unprecedented scale and cost.
  • For more information or consideration for early access evaluation of PIPseq-CRISPR reagents, please contact us [email protected] .

Scholastic Appoints Alix Guerrier and Kaya Henderson to its Board of Directors

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Thursday, March 21, 2024
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NEW YORK, March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children's publishing, education and media company, today announced that Alix Guerrier and Kaya Henderson were appointed to its board of directors (the "Board") as independent directors, effective March 20, 2024.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children's publishing, education and media company, today announced that Alix Guerrier and Kaya Henderson were appointed to its board of directors (the "Board") as independent directors, effective March 20, 2024.
  • Mr. Guerrier contributes over 20 years of experience in the education sector including as a teacher and an educational technology entrepreneur.
  • Ms. Henderson currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Reconstruction US, a technology company she co-founded and launched in April 2020.
  • Before serving in her current role, Ms. Henderson served as Principal for her consulting company, Kaya Henderson Consulting.

US Sports Camps Partners with Stanford Baseball to Offer Nike Baseball Camp Stanford All Star Sessions at Sunken Diamond

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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SAN RAFAEL, Calif., March 20, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- US Sports Camps, the leading provider of sports camps nationwide including Nike Baseball Camps, is announcing a partnership with Stanford Baseball. Together, they are set to offer four All-Star sessions for high school players graduating in 2025, 2026 and 2027. Each session is a four-day/three-night full baseball experience with first-class instructors from over 25 universities. In addition to individual skill development, athletes will play a 9/10 inning game every day to enhance their teamwork and leadership skills. All this at Stanford's world-class baseball facility, Sunken Diamond.

Key Points: 
  • US Sports Camps, the leading provider of sports camps nationwide including Nike Baseball Camps, is announcing a partnership with Stanford Baseball.
  • Together, they are set to offer four All-Star sessions for high school players graduating in 2025, 2026 and 2027.
  • SAN RAFAEL, Calif., March 20, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- US Sports Camps, the leading provider of sports camps nationwide including Nike Baseball Camps, is announcing a partnership with Stanford Baseball.
  • July Camp Dates: July 28-31, 2024 | July 31-August 3, 2024
    Registration is now open and interested individuals are encouraged to secure their spots early by visiting Nike Baseball Camp Stanford All-Star Sessions https://www.ussportscamps.com/baseball/nike/nike-baseball-camp-stanford-... (Summer 2024) (ussportscamps.com) or calling 1-800-645-3226.

New Knee Research Finds Exactech Technologies Improve Patient Outcomes

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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"Optimizing soft tissue balance is critical to the success of total knee arthroplasty," said James Huddleston, MD, of Stanford University.

Key Points: 
  • "Optimizing soft tissue balance is critical to the success of total knee arthroplasty," said James Huddleston, MD, of Stanford University.
  • "Exactech's ligament-driven technology provides full-range intraoperative balance data, allowing surgeons to create patient-centric plans with consideration for the ever-important mid-flexion stability.
  • The results of this study are powerful in demonstrating the beauty of personalized knee arthroplasty and the importance of addressing instability and improved satisfaction."
  • The results demonstrated that Exactech's ligament-driven knee technology did not significantly increase operative time, and the patients, on average, experienced an eight-hour shorter hospital stay and yielded clinically significant improvements on Knee Society Knee and Function scores.

Buzz Solutions Raises $5M to Accelerate Adoption of its AI-Powered Platform for Visual Grid Infrastructure Inspections and Monitoring

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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PALO ALTO, Calif., March 20, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Buzz Solutions, an AI company that inspects and protects critical energy infrastructure, today announced it closed a $5 million round of growth funding. GoPoint Ventures led the round, with additional participation from Blackhorn Ventures and MaC Venture Capital. The investment follows a period of significant acceleration in customer adoptions as utilities are demanding more efficient and accurate T&D infrastructure inspections and better substation security.

Key Points: 
  • This latest round of financing will fund our next growth phase and expansion into new use cases associated with inspecting and monitoring critical infrastructure.
  • The company has gained significant market traction with utilities that use its PowerAI platform for visual infrastructure inspections and predictive maintenance.
  • "With the most accurate AI powered solutions on the market, Buzz is quickly becoming the power industry's leading partner in infrastructure inspections and substation security.
  • Capitalizing on the large opportunity to help utility companies improve efficiencies and reduce risk, Buzz has rapidly become a leader in AI-powered visual inspections for T&D and substation infrastructure.

Loreli Cadapan Joins Liquibase as Vice President of Product

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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AUSTIN, Texas, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading database change management solution Liquibase announces the appointment of Loreli Cadapan as Vice President of Product. The MIT alum and ex-Oracle Director of DevOps unites her expertise in leading and building DevOps teams and products as she charts a user-centric roadmap expanding the uses, capabilities, and values of database CI/CD. Building on Liquibase's open-source foundation and core automation, governance, and observability features, Cadapan strives to bring DevOps integration to all of the world's data stores.

Key Points: 
  • AUSTIN, Texas, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading database change management solution Liquibase announces the appointment of Loreli Cadapan as Vice President of Product .
  • "As a DevOps devotee and longtime Liquibase user, I know how game-changing it is to extend DevOps to the database," says Cadapan.
  • In 2017, Cadapan kicked off a five-year stint at DevOps/DevSecOps platform JFrog as Sr. Director of Product, building the U.S. product team from the ground up.
  • Prior to joining Liquibase in December 2023, she spent two years as Chief Product Officer at ActiveState with its enterprise DevSecOps platform for software supply chain security.

Saga Education and Success for All Selected as High-Impact Tutoring Partners for Michigan School Districts

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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In 2023, Saga Education and Success for All formed a partnership to support districts and state education agencies with tutoring in early literacy and middle/late grades math.

Key Points: 
  • In 2023, Saga Education and Success for All formed a partnership to support districts and state education agencies with tutoring in early literacy and middle/late grades math.
  • "Saga Education is honored to be selected as an approved, high-impact tutoring technical assistance partner for Michigan school districts," said Alan Safran, CEO and co-founder of Saga Education.
  • Success for All offers Michigan school districts Success for All (SFA) Tutoring, a research-proven, web-based literacy tutoring for below-level students in grades 1-8.
  • Success for All looks forward to supporting Michigan school districts in accelerating their students' growth in essential literacy skills," said Julie Wible, Success for All CEO.

New AI-Powered Data Analyst from Polco Provides Instant, Actionable Insights for Governments

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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Personified as "Polly," Polco's conversational AI data analyst answers public sector leaders' most pressing questions with unparalleled, real-time performance management data, comparisons, and historical trends.

Key Points: 
  • Personified as "Polly," Polco's conversational AI data analyst answers public sector leaders' most pressing questions with unparalleled, real-time performance management data, comparisons, and historical trends.
  • Currently accessed in Polco's platform, Polly puts actionable community insights at the fingertips of users for strategic planning, budgeting, grant applications, performance management, and everyday reporting.
  • "Public officials earnestly want to make great decisions using data, but it's really difficult to use public sector data," said Polco CEO Nick Mastronardi.
  • "Public officials earnestly want to make great decisions using data, but it's really difficult to use public sector data," said Polco CEO Nick Mastronardi.